Social media is a central and important platform for science communication in general and vaccine communication in particular.

The goal of this project is to create a conceptual framework to account for situations where a scientific consensus appears to be well-established, yet social controversy seems to develop independently of the strength of the scientific arguments. This project looks at the epistemology of the Facebook debate on the Oral Polio Vaccination (OPV).

This project also participates in the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Tel Aviv University’s discussion group on “Vaccination Policy in Israel“.